America's Lost Black Towns Vol. 2 — Burned & Driven Out (Standard Companion Edition — EPUB Edition)

In January 1923, a mob burned the Black town of Rosewood, Florida, house by house for a week, and the survivors who fled into the swamps never came back — Florida took until 1994 to say so officially, paying $2.1 million to nine survivors and their descendants. In the fall of 1912, night riders emptied Georgia's Forsyth County of its entire Black population — 1,098 people in the 1910 census, 58 of them landowners — and the townsite of Oscarville now sleeps under Lake Lanier. And in Tulsa, after the most famous Black town in America was burned in 1921, Greenwood did the thing this volume is really about: it rebuilt — 764 of its 1,256 burned homes already rising again by December 1921, and 242 Black-owned businesses by 1942, more than before the fire — before redlining and a highway took their second turn at it. (For the 1921 massacre itself, this chapter deliberately bridges to the author's Black Wall Streets volume; Greenwood's chapter here is the town — its founding, its rebuilding, and its second erasure.) Death tolls are printed as attributed ranges — 8 documented at Rosewood, survivor accounts to 27 — never merged into a legend.

All 3 chapters, full text (10,032 words). Every chapter closes with its receipts — where the record disagrees, the disagreement is printed, not papered over. The clean EPUB edition, readable on any e-reader, tablet, or phone.